[SG2] Terrain

Strikes me that one of the ways to use 'terrain' cards, as it were, 
would be to make up a series of terrain tiles (either graphically or 
just with a text description) in 1'x1' sizes. Then a battlefield is 
composed of a draw of a bunch of these tiles. Now if a given mission 
mandates something, that may specify something like "An industrial 
complex, the objective, forms a two tile square at the centre of the 
board". Non-specified terrain would be drawn from a tile mix based on 
either selected or random area (that is to say, you are unlikely to 
see swamp and desert side by side - but a desert tile mix might 
include flats, low dunes, high dunes, some scrub, oases, etc.). 
This would let you 'deal' your battlefield. And then whatever mission 
is run on that battlefield. 

This has been used in random dungeon generation in FRPs and I think 
is viable in this venture too. I'll try to work out some tiles and 
some typical tile decks for different terrains. 

Tom. 
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